Fake New Year’s Eve

Many a thesis has been written, I’m sure, on the damage Disney movies and romantic comedies have on the psyche of young girls. The amount of truth behind that is beyond me — I do, however, suspect I’m in the category of those who have succumbed to the temptation of trying too hard to make [...]

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One Year Later

A year ago today, I packed up my car with two bags of clothes and winter coat. I was heading toward my aunt’s mother’s house in Glenview, where I’d been invited to stay for two weeks while I found another place to live and, hopefully, a job. I was fully prepared to stay in a [...]

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Ohio Agenda

Because I am insanely excited, I’ve planned out my trip home with Kevin almost by the hour. I’m not dumb enough to believe it will be carried out flawlessly or is set in stone, but tentatively, this is what’s happening. If you’re not on this schedule and wish you were, I am open to suggestions. [...]

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Coming full circle

In three weeks, I’ll have lived in Chicago for one year. I left Columbus early in the morning October 25, the week of Halloween. That was also the peak of Ohio’s beautiful leaves season, but I wasn’t even thinking about that at the time. Now that I can’t have them, they’re all I can think [...]

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